Company won't allow remote employee to relocate 1 mile away within their city: 'You’ve been shown the warning signs'

That's what this job was trying to do, though, when they were about to hire a new employee. When you're first being onboarded for a job, you're probably walking on eggshells. You don't want to do anything or say anything that might jeopardize your future with the company. Odds are, you needed this job, and you'd like to hold onto it if you can. But sometimes you make one wrong move, and everything comes crumbling down. This is when you learn that it was never meant to be in the first place. If it were that easy to mess up, then it was never truly yours. That's what this employee learned at the start of their new gig. With it being a remote job, they figured that changing their address would be a non-issue. After all, they weren't having to commute to an office. Plus, they were going to be in the same town, just a short distance away. But their employer started to get a little bit testy about the subject, and they were left wondering why. Keep scrolling to read all the details of the story and see the guesses some commenters had about why they would do this.